# Do Other Countries Have Hyphenated People? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 6, 2013, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-other-countries-have-hyphenated-people/657606 "2013-05-06T12:07:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-other-countries-have-hyphenated-people/657606/41 "2013-05-08T23:18:41Z")
> [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > Yeah I actually have Australian citizenship\* but would never identify myself as Australian, I am a New Zealander. > > \*The company I was working for were renewing their contract with a government agency. If they didn’t get the contract my best job prospects would be to work for the company that did get it. Although when I started working for the company Australian citizenship was not required, it had since become a requirement and I didn’t want any technicality to prevent me from remaining employed. Did you have to renounce your New Zealand citizenship? I think a lot of Americans are uncomfortable with the idea of a person owing allegiance to more than one country. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-other-countries-have-hyphenated-people/657606/42 "2013-05-09T02:42:52Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Did you have to renounce your New Zealand citizenship? I think a lot of Americans are uncomfortable with the idea of a person owing allegiance to more than one country. No, in fact I still travel on my NZ passport as I haven’t got around to getting an Australian one. ---
**Author:** ![Driver8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Driver8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Driver8)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-other-countries-have-hyphenated-people/657606/43 "2013-05-09T04:11:15Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Did you have to renounce your New Zealand citizenship? I think a lot of Americans are uncomfortable with the idea of a person owing allegiance to more than one country. I hope they get over it. It must be extremely common for naturalized Americans to hold onto their previous citizenship. I for one have both a South African and American passport. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-other-countries-have-hyphenated-people/657606/44 "2013-05-09T12:17:32Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Did you have to renounce your New Zealand citizenship? I think a lot of Americans are uncomfortable with the idea of a person owing allegiance to more than one country. I also have dual Australian/NZ citizenship and didn’t have to renounce my NZ citizenship when I became Australian, which is just as well frankly. It’s not really a big deal (both countries recognise the Queen as head of state, after all) and heaps of people I know in both countries hold dual citizenships, not only Aust/NZ but also Aust/UK or NZ/UK, Aust/Canada, NZ/Canada, etc. One guy I knew years ago had the trifecta of triple citizenship - UK, New Zealand and Australia. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-other-countries-have-hyphenated-people/657606/45 "2013-05-09T17:16:26Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > It’s not done in Israel. Colloquially, people are simply referred to by the name of the country they, or their ancestors, came from - Russian immigrants are called “Russians”, American immigrants are called “Americans”, and so on… Interesting. What are American tourists called, then - those who are just visiting and have no intention of settling in Israel? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-other-countries-have-hyphenated-people/657606/46 "2013-05-09T17:24:42Z")
“Annoyances”. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-other-countries-have-hyphenated-people/657606/47 "2013-05-10T10:33:49Z")
Heh. Generally, they’re just called “American Tourists” On a related note, Jewish immigrants from anglophone countries (the U.S., Canada, UK, Australia and South Africa) are often lumped together under “_Anglosaxim_”,a name many of us find hilarious. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-other-countries-have-hyphenated-people/657606.md?page=2)